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The Caprices

By Sabina Murray
The Caprices by Sabina Murray digital book - Fable

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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. A collection of stories artfully told across the theatre of the Pacific Campaign of World War II.
 
An Anglo-Indian cavalryman, his homeland on the brink of revolution, finds himself in Malaysia fighting to protect British interests. Two soldiers lost in the jungle with a Japanese prisoner confront their prejudices toward each other, and the nature of being American. An island witnesses the passing of history from Magellan, to Amelia Earhart, to the dropping of the atomic bomb. With exquisite lyricism tempered by a journalist’s eye for detail, Murray shines light on the tangle of battles created by that conflict, the violent reach across the generations, the shattering reverberations in memory. With this collection, Sabina Murray established herself as a passionate and wise voice of literary fiction.
 
“In this sobering book, [Murray] turns the bombed-out and broken setting of World War II into a theater for humankind, where both weakness and grace are writ large.” —The Washington Post
 

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About Sabina Murray

Sabina Murray grew up in Australia and the Philippines and is a member of the MFA faculty at the University of Massachusetts. She is the author of Slow Burn, A Carnivore’s Inquiry and The Caprices, which won the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She was recently awarded a Guggengheim Fellowship.

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